pedagogy

Most famous scientists and mathematicians were undeniably recognisable as bright sparks from their early years, but here’s a post for a friend whose fab, funny, clever little girl is feeling downhearted at the moment. The folk mentioned below were always really smart, but their genius didn’t always fit...

I’ve wanted a new board game since playing Carcassonne when we stayed with games guru friends a few years ago. I wanted something different to the old favourites such as Monopoly and Scrabble. On the advice of the friends we stayed with I decided on Settlers of Catan. Matt...

Ollie had something he wanted to share on the blog: “If you like to draw, but the pictures you want to copy are very tricky, you can trace them. I’m making books for Toby by tracing the pictures and then sticking them to white paper and adding information and...